D Day – We are on our way!

After two months of transitioning from life on land to life afloat, we are on our way, feeling a bit frazzled but elated. At long last, Sunday 30 July, we cast off the mooring lines and left behind modern trappings, the city, the noise and the bureaucracy to sail into the future! 

sv-takeiteasy approaching Docklands

Sea Change: Passage to Docklands

We are getting awfully close to D Day now!  In the midst of the mayhem that goes with packing away our land life has come a welcome interlude.  We brought the boat from the Gippsland Lakes to Docklands in Melbourne.

Hooded Plover

Bird Photography Challenge #51: Hooded Plover

While we were away cruising Bass Strait, we paused our regular Bird Photography Challenge posts.  But we are back on land now.  So for our return to our fortnightly posting, we are making the Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) the star of our #51 Bird Photography Challenge. The “hoody” as we affectionately call it, inhabits sandy…